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Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, who is now charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, was previously discharged from the U.S. Army for serious misconduct — and still hired at six police departments in Central Illinois.
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The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust.
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Journalists at St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project partnered on a 5-part investigation breaking down homicide clearance rates in St. Louis.
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These St. Louis families have been waiting for years in hopes of getting answers after their loved ones were killed. While parents, siblings and others say police seem to have forgotten them — they have not.
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The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog.
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Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors.
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In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones.
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Getting and interpreting homicide clearance data involved litigation, complex analysis and patience.
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In one of America’s deadliest cities, police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust.
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Over the last decade, nearly 2,000 homicides have occurred in St. Louis. More than 1,000 of them have not been solved. Here are some of them.